Hola familia!
This
week has been one crazy emotional rollercoaster... It was bike week,
(that's fine... but I was under the impression that our bike week was
next week... so I had not planned for it at all...)
To
top it off I got a flat tire. not once but twice this week... that's
okay I've done more than my fair share of walk weeks and I am fine with
it... but this is Little Rock and we are surrounded by hills in this
area and none of our investigators live anywhere near us... and since it
is the city and not a dry county there is broken glass EVERYWHERE...so
it has been an interesting week (poor Hermana Reed it was her first bike
week ever and it was super intense.) Only one more bike week to go...
at this point I'm not even sure if I want to try and fix my bike or just
opt for a walk week again... still contemplating that one. Any
suggestions?
This week has been super cold and
windy so Hermana Reed and I have gotten cute little runny noses, coughs
but our helpful recent convert from Nicaragua gave us some sort of cough
syrup from his pais... so, of course I have tried it. It really does
remind me of some of the concoctions I tried in China, it is has to be
good for me right?!? Actually it was pretty funny how he brought it up. I
was coughing a little during his lesson about agency... I just finished
reading 2 Nefi 2:27-28 and he says, "Espera me!" he comes back out with
this mysterious brown bottle and a spoon. Then tells me I can have it. I
resisted at first to which he replied. Well, just like we were talking
about earlier, you have your agency to choose to take medicine and get
better or to Not...
Now tell me how I could refuse that when
he was totally applying the gospel principle that we had just taught?
lol, I wonder if we guilt our investigators into living the gospel like
Luis guilt-ed me into cough syrup?
We met this
awesome security guard this week. He talked about police work and just
how boring it is. He told us that a police officer in a 20 year career
will pull out his firearm and average of 3 times, for his entire career.
He then told us how if you pull out pepper spray it is a load of paper
work, you pull out a firearm and it is a MOUNTAIN of paperwork. He
really did go off on a rant about how all he did was paperwork... It was
pretty comical, not gonna lie.
Our Spanish
branch is doing something really awesome this year in Relief Society.
Most of our members are converts to the church, and a lot of them have
never read the Book of Mormon cover to cover before. So our Relief
Society President has challenged each of the women to -read the entire
book of Mormon this year - memorize the 12 articles of faith - and
memorize the Relief Society declaration. Then at the end of the year
they are going to be presented with a medallion (kind of like YWs). Next
year the goal is to start the relief society working on the YWs
program! I am so excited for the spiritual growth that is going to
happen in this branch.
Yup, that was this week, a lot of walking and a little bit of talking ;)
I'm happy, I know the gospel is true and there is no where else I'd rather be right now.
Love,
Hermana Ives
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